it’s always heartening to see things like this:
All they’ll talk about is peer-to-peer this, that, and the other thing. Suddenly you have peer-to-peer conferences, peer-to-peer venture capital funds, and even peer-to-peer backlash with the imbecile business journalists dripping with glee as they copy each other’s stories: “Peer To Peer: Dead!”
for the simple fact that it’s a reminder that if we have indeed strayed from the light, we did so long ago.
This was also back in the day when the average computing device felt like capital accessible to the common man, machines which could be wrangled into solving your own problems on your own terms.
That's in contrast to a curated service graciously permitted by The Powers That Be, which doesn't do anything that's good for you that isn't also good for them.
I feel like I may have missed the whole Single Page Application (SPA) boat. I am not saying that SPAs are still not popular or anything. But rather, I have started to see more push back against them or more people starting to look into alternatives like HTMX, for example.
So, I never took the time to learn SPAs and my employer doesn't use them. At times in the past, I would be lying if I said I didn't have a bit of FOMO. However, if the pendulum truly does swing away from SPAs, then I might feel a bit vindicated in my apathy.
At least federation is a compromise. Techies still run servers but their friends no longer need to.